The loudest band in the world My Bloody Valentine are finally on these shore in support of the long-awaited ‘m b v.’

The band that formed in Dublin in late 1983 are hitting Co Laois tonight for the first Irish airing of the bands’ first full-length studio album in more than two decades.

Known for their use of distortion, pitch bending, and digital reverse reverb, My Bloody Valentine’s musical progression resulted in the band creating and pioneering an alternative rock subgenre known as shoegazing.

Their 1988 album Isn’t Anything is generally regarded as one of the most influential records of the period and 1991s ‘Loveless’ was later declared one of the finest albums of the 1990s.

The band members -- vocalist-guitarist-songwriter Kevin Shields, drummer Colm O Ciosoig, vocalist-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist-keyboardist Debbie Googe -- struggled to record a follow up album and split in 1997.

They reunited in 2007 and performed several concerts the following year.

The band released their third album, m b v, last February to universal acclaim.

In an interview with Pitchfork recently New York-born Shields, who turned 50 this year, said he didn’t care how long it had taken to write the follow-up to Loveless just that he regrets not making more music at this point.

“As I get older, I realise a lot of the things I could have done – things that I didn’t think were so great at the time – actually would have been enjoyable.

"I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That’s the intention.”

He went on to speak about his future plans for the band.

"The next step is to make an EP of all-new material,” he said.

“I’m also going to remaster ‘Loveless’ and ‘Isn’t Anything’ and all the EPs in analogue to make pure analogue cuts, which has never happened before.

“And I hate to say this because we haven’t set it up yet, but we want to do a site where everyone who bought a record would be able to stream various other things we put up, like an old recording of when I first experimented with pitch-bending back in ‘81.

"People could get a clearer version of how we wound up where we did.

“It seems more mysterious based on the records that were released because it seems like we went from a Cramps/Birthday Party band to a noisy Jesus And Mary Chain indie pop band, to what we became in ‘88.”